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The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death of Venita Johnson accidental. Cause of her death was suffocation.
A neighbor called Deputy Brandon Armstrong to the victim's home in Rockford about 9 a.m. Sunday. The 72-year-old man said he had stopped by the woman's home to give her some candy and found the front door standing open.
He checked the home and found no one inside. Suspecting he would find her in the yard, he began checking and saw the back of her head protruding from a pile of snow. Her snow shovel handle was sticking out of the snow nearby.
It appeared the snow had cascaded from her rooftop, knocked her down and buried her. She was dressed in clothing appropriate for the winter weather and may have been shoveling her walks when the accident occurred.
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